Quotes About Depth

She had discovered that loving an imperfect, all-too-human man was a far more profound experience than loving a perfect idol.

The difference between the sea and the land is that the sea is just.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Pero cuánto sabe el hombre de sí mismo? Según toda la experiencia, muy poco. Para lo inconsciente queda, por lo tanto, mucho espacio libre.

This inner world is truly infinite, in no way poorer than the outer one. Man lives in two worlds. Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

I am a symbol of my soul.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Modern man can't see God because he doesn't look low enough.

The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness. This problem is exceedingly difficult, because it not only challenges the whole man, but reminds him at the same time of his helplessness and ineffectuality.

The great Poetry that creates out of the soul of humankind is inaccurately explained if we reduce it to the personal

The core of an individual is the mystery of life, which dies when it is 'grasped'. That is also why symbols want to keep their secrets.

A dream is nothing but a lucky idea that comes to us from the dark, all-unifying world of the psyche. What would be more natural, when we have lost ourselves amid the endless particulars and isolated details of the world's surface, than to knock at the door of dreams and inquire of them the bearings which would bring us closer to the basic facts of human existence?

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

And the kiss feels like something completely new. But it also feels like something deeply known.

Me di cuenta entonces que no es suficiente saber cómo se llama alguien. Tienes que saber quiénes son.

D'après mon amie Kim, ai-je dit, c'est signe de profondeur d'âme. Pour elle, le monde est divisé entre les personnes qui envisagent leurs obsèques et les autres. Les artistes et les gens brillants appartiennent à la première catégorie.

everything seems smaller than life

Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.

He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

the outside is a shell for all of us. My beauty is on the inside, where it never fades." She

tourmaline. But

Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.